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Interview with mike abrashoff monday, september 22, 2014, 8. As one of the youngest commanding officers in the navys pacific fleet, following his post as military assistant to the secretary of defense, mike took command of his first ship and wasted no time instituting radical changes. After learning that many sailors wanted to use the gi bill, abrashoff brought a test official aboard the shipand held the sats forty miles off the iraqi coast. Mike abrashoff is at the center of one of the most remarkable modern day stories of organizational transformation. Its your ship summarizes his lessons learned, which eventually set benfold apart as an extraordinary model of efficiency, teamwork, and multifaceted leadership. Mike abrashoff keynote speaker videos gda speakers.
Mike abrashoff is a leadership keynote speaker, performance expert, former us naval commander, and author of the millioncopy, managementtechnique bestseller its your ship. After just 12 months, abrashoff transformed the ship using the same crew and won the navys spokane trophy for bestperforming ship in the pacific fleet. In twelve months it became the navys best ship using the same crew. Business, leadership, management, military fiction, nonfiction. Achieving breakthrough performance when mike abrashoff took command of the uss benfold, morale was low, turnover was high and the ships performance ranked near the bottom of the pacific fleet. When captain abrashoff took over as commander of uss benfold, it was like a business that had all the latest technology but only some of the productivity. Thats the situation mike abrashoff, author of its your ship, faced when he became the youngest commander in the u. The two discussed leadership, motivation, organizational transformation, abrashoffs bestselling book, its your ship and his training academy, aegis performance group.
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